114 degrees today, and a friend of mine decided to use the car as an oven for cookies! How cool is that. (Obviously, if little kids are ar...

Do you use window AC units? We do in the upstairs in our bedrooms at night. We program the thermostat to turn the AC to a much higher temp ...

If you've read my blog, you know that I line dry and advocate line drying, but I do use my dryer on occasion (like when it rains all we...

My house's duct work is worthless, but it will cost $4,000 to redo. Not the kind of money we have at the moment for this. Essentially, t...

We mostly use wood heat to heat our house with a lovely soapstone stove my Mother and Stepfather graciously let us have. But it's a dry...

So, I made my first batch of homemade noodles with the pasta machine I found at a flea market. I didn't realize that the dough had to si...

Robin was kind enough to send in her directions on using egg cartons, old candles and dryer lint for making Fire Starters. I like the tear a...

We were gifted with a reel push mower. You might think that it was replaced with a gas mower because it didn't work well or that it took...

Don't have a dehydrator but would like to make fruit leather or dehydrate fruit and veggies? To make sure you get appropriate temperatu...

So we have all drilled it in out brains and the brains of household members to turn off lights when they leave a room, but when should we do...

According to the April 2009 edition of Reader's Digest, $4 billion dollars is spent to pay for electricity no one is using. Take a look...

I have yet to find the cost of a food vacuum sealer palatable, so I use a straw to try to avoid freezer burn and spoilage. I put the left ov...

My propane tank with my new house was tangled with vines and rusty. Never had a propane tank before, so I called the company that I rent it ...

Should you or should you not use hot water in your washing machine? That is the question. There are many facets to this question. 1) How wil...

Drying your clothes on a line not only saves you money, but saves your clothes and avoids much static cling. Outside I have a clothesline st...

There are 2 good energy reasons to use your curtains for more than just decoration. 1) During the winter, it is free heat. I don't thin...

I installed a water heater insulation blanket on my water heater. I put one on the last house and noticed that it seemed that the water hea...

I have a two door crisper in my refrigerator that has knobs to control humidity. So, I set out to find what should go where so my produce wi...

Is your utility room cold? Do you close the dryer door after you are through using it? If not, do so, otherwise you have given cold air dire...

With all the baking about to be done, don't forget to lower the heat in the house a bit or bake during the colder part of the day (morni...